GGR252H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Strip Mall, Distillery District, Pizza Hut
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Week 1: exploring the structure of retail independents, chains, franchises, and. Focus: different format in the retail economy, ownership, spatial context, evolution and reasons for change. Definition: privately owned, usually individual, family: retailer is someone who is completely responsible for his or her own business. Function: varied: store type, product mix, market focus, level of specialization, location. Geography: urban areas retail strips, integrated into neighborhoods, ethnic areas, suburban older retail areas (e. g. port credit), strip malls, ethnic areas. Strip mall: a shopping mall consisting of stores and restaurants typically in one-story buildings located on a busy main road. Market focus: related to store type & product mix, typically local consumers. Challenges: local population, entertainment, leisure area. Function of city industrial to post-industrial. Residential, retail, entertainment, leisure: regeneration - urban renewal, urban regeneration - neighborhood change. Higher income consumers, interest in ambience, experience.
